Only 342 “assault weapons,” or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could be thousands of residents in the scenic university town of 107,000 in violation of the sweeping gun-control ordinance.

“I would say the majority of people I’ve talked to just aren’t complying because most people see this as a registry,” said Lesley Hollywood, executive director of the Colorado Second Amendment group Rally for Our Rights. “Boulder actually has a very strong firearms community.”

The ordinance, approved by the city council unanimously, banned the possession and sale of “assault weapons,” defined as semiautomatic rifles with a pistol grip, folding stock, or ability to accept a detachable magazine. Semiautomatic pistols and shotguns are also included.

Current owners were given until the end of the year to choose one of two options: Get rid of their semiautomatics by moving them out of town, disabling them, or turning them over to police — or apply for a certificate with the Boulder Police Department, a process that includes a firearm inspection, background check, and $20 fee.

Judging by the numbers, however, most Boulder firearms owners have chosen to do none of the above, albeit quietly.

“The firearms community in Boulder — they may be Democrats but they love their firearms,” said Ms. Hollywood, herself a former Boulder resident.

One longtime Boulderite who has openly refused to comply is Jon Caldara, president of the free-market Independence Institute, who writes a column for the Denver Post and hosts the public-affairs show “Devil’s Advocate” on Colorado Public Television.

“The question was, do I do this publicly or do it privately, and I’ve chosen to do it publicly because somebody has to,” Mr. Caldara said. “There will be thousands of people in Boulder living in the shadows, worried about somebody turning them in.”

What made him decide to take one for the team was the specter of the tolerance-espousing Boulder City Council cracking down on a maligned minority, namely gun owners.

“In this town that spouts tolerance for alternative lifestyles, that actually puts posters all over its buildings and schools about it, when it comes to a lifestyle they don’t like, there is no tolerance,” said Mr. Caldara. “So for me, this all works around the word tolerance. And tolerance means tolerating things you dislike, that you find scary.”

How many others are engaged in non-compliance? “Without a doubt, there are more than 342,” he said. “I think potentially there are thousands.”

The city council, which has been hit with state and federal lawsuits challenging the ban, took action in response to the tragic Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead.

“I’m proud that we’ve taken a stand and become part of the growing movement towards common sense gun control in our country,” said council member Aaron Brockett on Facebook.

City attorney Tom Carr has acknowledged that enforcing the ordinance will be a challenge, telling the Boulder Daily Camera that “there’s no circumstance where we go door-to-door and ask people if they’ve violated the law.”

Still, Mr. Caldara, who has shared custody of his son with Down Syndrome and teenage daughter, said he’s worried about the consequences. Each violation of the ordinance carries a fine of as much as $1,000 and up to 90 days in jail.

“I don’t like this at all. I’m scared,” Mr. Caldara said. “I do not want to go to jail. I don’t want them to confiscate my guns. I’m scared s—less about what’s going to happen to my kids. The idea of my son being without his dad for three months is awful. I just want some damn consistency.”

Boulder spokeswoman Shannon Aulabaugh declined to comment on his non-compliance, citing his role as a plaintiff in the federal lawsuit filed by the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

Other Boulderites are making their objections known in different ways. A Boulder business owner provided Ms. Hollywood’s group with T-shirts and yellow car stickers with the message, “We Will Not Comply,” which have popped up on vehicles, guitar cases, even rifle bags.

A rally in April before the council’s vote drew more than 500 supporters to downtown Boulder.

“That was a neat protest because it really brought out people from Boulder,” Ms. Hollywood said. “People you would never expect to be gun owners were standing there, the gun-toting hippies, basically, saying, ‘Why are you guys doing this to us? We didn’t do anything wrong, and now you’re coming after us.'”

The city has insisted that certification does not constitute gun registration — police issue paper certificates and insist they do not keep records — although Ms. Hollywood refers to it as the “‘not-a-registry’ registry.”

Given that the average gun owner possesses multiple weapons, she said the 342 certificates could have been issued to as few as two dozen residents. She knows one owner who certified four firearms, another who certified eight.

“Most of them are doing five to 10 firearms per person,” Ms. Hollywood said. “I’m pretty confident it’s somewhere between 20 and 50 people altogether.”

Upon taking their Oath to uphold, support & defend the U.S. Constitution, including the SECOND AMENDMENT, they’ve committed felony OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT by violating their oaths, false swearing under oath, false swearing on official documents, perjury of oath, perjury, fraud, theft by extortion, racketeering, treason & sedition. They have also committed theft of honest services for lying upon taking the Oath of Office. This should be publicized throughout Boulder, and then the people need to start recall petitions against all of these local politicians for committing criminal acts.

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ltuser

4:26 pm January 7, 2019 at 4:26 pm

And if that is what they are doing, then START PUNISHING THEM FOR DOING SO. Don’t just say they are doing wrong, Hold them accountable for being wrong.

Any ‘infringement’ on keeping or bearing arms is unconstitutional… what part of infringement does the city council not understand. At 20 dollars a pop, certifying these weapons can be a real revenue raiser for the city… makes one question what’s the real purpose of this program.

Well, infringement is kind of a big word for the left, plus getting all the way down to 2nd Amendment is past their attention span. They get as far as “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes” and then say “ooh, butterflies!” And that is it. Then they are left with a vague memory of can do taxes and didn’t someone say that Article Viola (that is what Vi stands for, right) say something about the government being supreme over God and man? Something like that.

Settled in the Supreme Court . District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008),[1] is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm, unconnected with service in a militia, for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia’s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock” violated this guarantee. It also stated that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and that guns and gun ownership would continue to be regulated. It was the first Supreme Court case to decide whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.[2]

But we can be sure many are carrying guns or have shotguns (think that idiot toucher Biden on this), and have armed security guards for their homes and property. Like Pelosi and Obama they have walls to keep you out with fencing, electronic gates and again armed security guards. We must move NOW to close down/drain the Congress swamp and it is a good time with the shutdown and many in both houses not in Congress but at home moaning, groaning and hating. We lock all doors and we keep the keys in a very special place! Also using locks that cannot be opened except by our chosen keys holders.

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thedove

10:01 pm January 7, 2019 at 10:01 pm

>> We lock all doors and we keep the keys in a very special place! Also using locks that cannot be opened except by our chosen keys holders. <<

Did you have to get a hall pass and go to the middle-school library to write this? By what authority, chrose, by what authority?

Good for Mr Caldara! SOMEONE needs to stand publicly. Although the Second Amendment applied to CONGRESS, the states had to ratify it. Therefore, it is implied that States and cities would respect the Second Amendment also. Todays radical lawyers maintain that the Second Amendment only applies to Congress. States have their own constitutions and have opted to infringe on the Second Amendment, I guess citing the technicality of the exact wording of the US Constitution. Well, think about it: IF states can violate the US Constitution then there is NO US Constitution–effectively! I don’t think that the Founding Fathers intended for spirit of the US Constitution to be broken by the states. Yet the states HAVE—for many years. Maybe SOMEONE should make a Supreme Court case out of it and let SCOTUS clarify that the States CANNOT nullify the spirit of the US Constitution–since the states ALL ratified the US Constitution–and therefore ratified the spirit of the Bill of Rights which states are NOT entitled to take away.

This has already been settled at the Supreme Court… District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008),[1] is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm, unconnected with service in a militia, for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia’s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock” violated this guarantee. It also stated that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and that guns and gun ownership would continue to be regulated. It was the first Supreme Court case to decide whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.[2]

Okay folks, consider this. If this kind of reaction to a gun control law is witnessed in Boulder, Peoples Republic of Colorado, imagine what it would be like in 90% of the rest of the states. I personally am glad to see the progressives continue to push this stuff. It simply stiffens conservative strength overall.

As an aside, if all these “Boulder hippies” described in the article are anti gun control, why are they democrats to begin with? Does the concept of “big government” and the problems it creates not resonate someplace in the deep recesses of the “progressive mentality”?

Right on Speedle! If they can’t get a level of cooperation on gun registration any better than that in the People’s Republic of Boulder, they have no chance in the rest of the country. Contrary to popular belief, there are still a whole lot of red blooded conservatives living in Colorado. Boulder has always been left wing loony land. I have to admire Jon Caldera’s intestinal fortitude for living there. Of course, Boulder is known for a demographic that leans heavily female. That doesn’t help in elections, but it explains why you still find a number of red blooded types there. I am encouraged by the near total lack of participation in such an obvious registration scheme.. Given the disastrous election results here in 2018, I am expecting the dems to try a trick like that statewide. They will experience very similar results.

Aaaahhhh yesssss.
“At first I said nothing, then they came for me…” No one cared when they attacked Republicans, No one cared when they blocked conservatives from the media and internet, no one cared when they attacked gun owners in general, Then it came home to roost.

The real issue is that FEDERALLY SPEAKING….I have the right to travel through any state or city with my firearms. I have the right to go about my business with my property IN HAND. There is no way that a non-resident could be held to this law….unless every street, alleyway, city property and every other place had signs telling one the actual law, and stating it completely.
They would also have to have signs stating that you are leaving he gun ban area.
Regardless of such postings it would still violate your FEDERAL RIGHTS if you were traveling through or even owned property in more than one location…one that allowed guns and one that didn’t. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO YOUR PROPERTY.
I think that the voters should just plan an instant removal of all the ones who voted for this….and remove them from office instantly on an emergency basis.
This would show the officials that the founding fathers were right and being listened to.

dje3, this is what I stated above because 95% of the 2 parties in 1 are for this and taking our Republic into the One World Government. We hired them and now is the time during the shutdown and many are not in Congress at this moment to close and drain the Congress. We put on unlockable locks and we give the keys to someone we trust, maybe Trump? We hired them and now we are in a good time and place to fire them and no benefits of any kind. They are merely there to legislate and not own us but forgot to represent us so we have no need of these critters. The few good ones can be appointed in our NEW Congress but they will work in their home state and do business by electronics in our modern world by real time LIVE video, and we keep copies of those videos. Their salaries depend on what the state will pay, ditto benefits. No more DC gathering and working against us, no more lobbyists nor insider illegal trading, nor taking donor dollars to become millionaires. Time we remember that WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS REPUBLIC and they are not anything but government offices that can be closed/impeached, etc.

Hey, Gary, if “they love their FREEDOM,” it is far past time to start voting that way. The ONLY Democrats still loving their ‘freedom’ are the old school type, NOT this wackadoodledoo ‘new’ version. This ‘new’ DemonRAT outfit thinks, as well as believes, that Socialism/Communism a.k.a. Progressivism can work in America when it has FAILED in every country where tried – see the current state of Venezuela! You just can NOT elect these people to ANY position of government that will allow them to put their boot on your neck. Lovers of all things government, DemonRATS, want to control you from cradle to grave….As any totalitarian/dictatorship knows, the fastest way to control ‘the serfs’ is to DISARM them!

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Gary

12:54 pm January 7, 2019 at 12:54 pm

I truly believe the Dems have nothing to do with weapons in Boulder. There is still a contingency of conservatives that live there, and those are the ones who are defying the law. In fact, my wife and I had thanksgiving dinner with a couple last year. But like Berzerkeley, Mexifornistan, Boulder has lost its collective mind.

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ltuser

4:34 pm January 7, 2019 at 4:34 pm

Exactly. WHY ARE so many Coloradioians registered dems, if they love their freedom? Makes no damn sense.

A very LOW percentage of boulder’s population vote in local elections. That’s how you get these disgraceful city council elected and UNANIMOUSLY voting for the outrageous gun registration law. Local elections DO MATTER.We must stop this trash from ever being elected at the ballot box. The faces of this council should be posted on every local boulder newspaper along with their council voting records. The majority of boulder residents don’t know what is happening to them because of this council laws.

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Firewagon

11:45 am January 7, 2019 at 11:45 am

Roger that. The other ‘problem’ America has is “We The Serfs,” of voting age, FAIL to exercise, arguably, the most important ‘right’ which is to VOTE. Less than 50% of voting age adults vote. Liberals are determined to be ONLY around 20%+- of America’s population, but WE ALL suffer from some of the worst of the worst Liberal whacks getting elected! Crying after some whack, like the Muslim using a vile expletive in referring to the POTUS, gets elected to our vaunted(not) halls of government is sickening. WHY, because “We The Serfs” asked for it!

People in Boulder County are one of two types: 1) Some(few) old school Democrats that continue to illogically vote the party line; 2) The NEW, Progressive/Socialist/Communist Democrat that believe America should be more like Venezuela, Russia, China, Cuba, or any other European country sliding toward the ash heap of history!

Even in liberal NJ where they passed a ban on magazines larger than 10 rounds, NONE have been turned in and that includes law enforcement people that have their own personal weapons. They were not exempt from this ban. NO magazines have been turned in!
People will resist!

It’s very sad that this type of Communism happens in America where the 2nd Amendment is part of our Constitution. Hopefully, these unconstitutional laws will be challenged in the courts and overturned. Liberalism will destroy this Country.

Little hope in “the courts.” Just reviewing that recent SCOTUS decision that “People Have The Right to Have/Keep Firearms ‘in the home!'” That SIMPLE, declarative statement, 2nd Amendment was “unambiguous,” “concise,” and needs NO ‘interpretation’ by anyone or court!
Those FOUNDERS were some of, if not, THE most educated people on the planet, at the time. They “purposely” used definitive words such as ARMS, without LISTING such; and, KEEP AND BEAR, without defining WHERE! This bunch of magpies in robes incompetently, as well as ILLEGALLY, modified that Amendment by ‘adding’ “in the home.” Under what authority did they think to do that? The SCOTUS is to determine ‘what is Constitutional’ NOT add to or detract from RIGHTS already enumerated….

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ltuser

4:36 pm January 7, 2019 at 4:36 pm

With Colorado falling under the 9th circus, it would have to wait til it got all the way to the scotus, before it gets overturned.. ASSUMING ROBERTS votes the right way of course.

It is the nature of government to abhor freedom. It is the nature of free men and women to abhor government. It will remain this way until Christ returns to establish his 1,000 year rule over the earth.

In 2013, a grass roots citizens movement led by Victor Head in Pueblo had John Morse and Angela Giron recalled and Evie Hudak, the misogynistic sow, resigned rather than face the deserved humiliation. It’s heartwarming to see the Democratic Socialist Workers Paradise Utopian Republic is actually standing up for the rights of its citizens under the 2nd Amendment.

Ahh, and so it happens, DemocRATS become ‘criminals’ through the edict of other DemocRATS! But, of course, the edict makes ANYONE a criminal that does not “come to heel.” “….approved by the city council….” Why do I believe there isn’t ONE conservative on that council? How many members reside there – 5, 10, 15? Why does ANY city allow some “council” to have the power to impact the FREEDOM of thousands, without a vote, much less, INFRINGE on their Constitutional Rights? One more reason, NOBODY should put their Liberty in the hands of this NEW DemonRat party!! Coloradans NEED to put down the ‘weed’ and join with this ONE individual to REPLACE that Council and their edict….

“The city has insisted that certification does not constitute gun registration — police issue paper certificates and insist they do not keep records..” Yeah, the Jews heard something similar in the 1930’s Germany.

What irks me off.. I am currently listening heated discussion, on a youtube channel, between one liberal and one conservative teacher. The liberal teacher is saying “YES lets restore voting rights to felons, HELL EVEN GIVE THEM BACK to those still IN prison. Nothing should revoke ones right to vote”. YET THAT same idiot, feel we don’t have ENOUGH restrictions on guns..
While the Conservative teacher feels “IF we can strip the right to own a gun from felons, EVEN after they’ve been fully released from jail, often for decades after they’re out. WHY shouldn’t the same apply to voting??”

So to them, its OK TO totally and utterly evicerate the 2nd amendment, one of our FOUNDING amendments and rights. BUT voting? NA, nothing should ever infringe on that. Doing so is racist/wrong/bigoted..
Talk about being brain dead.

Since these lame politicians ALL took an Oath of Office to uphold, support and defend the U.S. Constitution, which includes the SECOND AMENDMENT as it applies to all 50 states and D.C., they have committed felony official misconduct for felony false swearing on their oaths, fraud, extortion, terroristic threats, treason & sedition.

The guns are “certified” by Boulder, but records are not kept. What is the purpose of that? Is it to allow those found with the banned guns after the deadline to show that they complied? Apparently, Boulder does not know who did not comply until someone is later found in violation. Government promises to not enact stricter regulations later have proven to be worthless elsewhere.

See the Genocide Chart over at jpfo(dot)org
Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor, once said, “When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.” When you hear a politician saying he wants to confiscate guns and others from coast to coast say they want gun control, believe them. Not to believe them is sheer delusion and wishful thinking as exhibited by many Jews who didn’t get out of Nazi Germany in time because they thought, “I may be a Jew, but I’m a German citizen who fought in the Kaiser’s army. They must mean those other Jews.”

The morons making this “law” were elected by the people of Boulder. Simple solution is to replace them with others that understand the constitution.
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It’s about time we stopped being governed by those who are ruled by their emotions. Their feelings don’t outrank our rights.

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